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Jim Cladingboel - 06 Jul 2006 06:14 GMT

I am increasingly often being informed by my ME O/S that "Msinm has caused an error in GDI.EXE...." Neither the Close or Ignore
options in the dialogue box which follows actually work, and up comes the BSOD.

The most recent occurrence was as I put an address into a new email message, and I actually recovered from the BSOD (a first ever!)
only to be told that "Outlook Express didn't shut down correctly" and to click to see the current message correctly.

As the PC didn't shut down, and with increasing frequency of these error messages, are these problems a sign that my WindowsME is in
need of a reinstall, or is it something simpler - I hope?
I have every applicable Windows update installed, but no games or anything I can think of which might be the cause.

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Jim, in sunny Brisbane, Oz.

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Noel Paton - 06 Jul 2006 07:33 GMT

I would tend to suspect either a damaged Identity, or a damaged Folders.dbx
file
Try this first
Open OE (if you can) and go to Tools|Options|Maintenance|Store Folder - make
a note of the path to the store folder.
Close OE
Open Windows Explorer, and navigate to the OE Store folder (which may be
hidden - so set your Folder Options accordingly!).
Find the Folders.dbx file, and rename it to Folders.jnk (do NOT delete it
yet!)
Close Windows Explorer, reboot, and then try OE again - see if that helps.

If not, then you can close OE, delete the new folders.dbx file, and rename
the old one back, to preserve your old folder structure. - you then need to
try creating a new Identity and running OE in that identity - you can import
messages into this identity if it works OK.

HTH

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>I am increasingly often being informed by my ME O/S that "Msinm has caused
>an error in GDI.EXE...." Neither the Close or Ignore
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> I have every applicable Windows update installed, but no games or anything
> I can think of which might be the cause.

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Jim Cladingboel - 07 Jul 2006 07:12 GMT

Thanks, Noel. I have tried your first suggestion and will see how it works out.

Regards, Jim.

> I would tend to suspect either a damaged Identity, or a damaged Folders.dbx
> file
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> > I have every applicable Windows update installed, but no games or anything
> > I can think of which might be the cause.

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